John 13 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Lord’s Supper

13Now before the Feast of ^athe Passover, Jesus knowing that ^bHis hour had come that He would depart out of this world ^cto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them ¹to the end. ²And during supper, ^athe devil having already put into the heart of ^bJudas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, ³Jesus, ^aknowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that ^bHe had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴*got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He ^atied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵Then He *poured water into the washbasin, and began to ^awash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. ⁶So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?” ⁷Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not realize now, but you will understand ^aafterwards.” ⁸Peter *said to Him, “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Jesus answered him, “^aIf I do not wash you, ^byou have no part with Me.” ⁹Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” ¹⁰Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^ayou are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹For ^aHe knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²So when He had washed their feet, and ^ataken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³“You call Me ^aTeacher and ^bLord; and ¹you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴“If I then, ^athe Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵“For I gave you ^aan example that you also should do as I did to you. ¹⁶“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aa slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^bone who is sent greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷“If you know these things, you are ^ablessed if you do them. ¹⁸“^aI do not speak about all of you. I know the ones I have ^bchosen; but ^cthat the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘^dHe who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ¹⁹“From now on ^aI am telling you before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe that ^bI am He. ²⁰“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^ahe who receives anyone I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹When Jesus had said these things, He ^abecame troubled in spirit, and bore witness and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^bone of you will ¹betray Me.” ²²The disciples began looking at one another, ^aperplexed about whom He *spoke. ²³There was reclining on ^aJesus’ bosom one of His disciples, ^bwhom Jesus loved. ²⁴So Simon Peter *gestured to him to inquire, “Who is the one of whom He is speaking?” ²⁵He, ^aleaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, *said to Him, “Lord, who is it?” ²⁶Jesus *answered, “He is the one for whom I shall dip the piece of bread and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the piece of bread, He *took and *gave it to Judas, ^athe son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷And after the piece of bread, ^aSatan then ^bentered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” ²⁸Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. ²⁹For some were thinking, because Judas ^ahad the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of ^bfor the feast”; or else, that he should ^cgive something to the poor. ³⁰So after receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And ^ait was night.

³¹Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus *said, “Now ¹is ^athe Son of Man ^bglorified, and ^cGod ²is glorified in Him; ³²¹if God is glorified in Him, ^aGod will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. ³³“^aLittle children, I am with you ^ba little while longer. ^cYou will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴“A ^anew commandment I give to you, ^bthat you love one another, ^ceven as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵“^aBy this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

³⁶Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, “^aWhere I go, you cannot follow Me now; but ^byou will follow later.” ³⁷Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? ^aI will lay down my life for You.” ³⁸Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aa rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.